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12.c Nouns

Let's learn some furniture names:

קִיר

[kir]

wall

אַרוֹן

[aron]

closet

לוּחַ

[luakh]

blackboard

All right, today we'll learn a new grammatic construction - a pair of nouns, usually chained by posession link. The new idiom often has a somewhat different meaning. We already saw several examples of these:

בֵית סֵפֵר

[beyt sefer]

school, lit. - house (of) book, bookhouse

גַן יֵלַדִים

[gan yeladim]

kindergarten, lit. - garden (of) children

מִיץ תַפוּחִים

[mitz tapukhim]

apple juice, lit. - juice (of) apples

Here are some more examples:

לוּחַ שַנַה

[luakh shana]

calendar, lit. - blackboard (of) year

אַרוֹן קִיר

[aron kir]

built-in closet, lit. - closet (of) wall

אוֹפנֵי עִיר

[ofney ir]

city bike, lit. - bike (of) city

סִיפוּר אַהַבַה

[sipur ahava]

love story, lit. - story (of) love

שִׂמלַת עֵרֵב

[simlat erev]

evening dress

Now, as part of the construction, the first of the two nouns may alter its ending. Typically, when the first noun is sing.masc. - it stays as it is; if it's sing.fem., ending with ה, that changes into ת. When it's plural masc., the ִים ending becomes ֵי. For example:

And back to some more furniture items:

שוּלחַן

[shulkhan]

table, desk

חַלוֹן

[khalon]

window

כִיסֵא

[kise]

chair

A special thing about the 6 furniture nouns we learned now is that, although they seem to be, and indeed are masculin - the plural is formed by a fem. pattern - adding וֹת, such as:

קִירוֹת

[kirot]

חַלוֹנוֹת

[khalonot]

Exercise – write in hebrew, pronounce and compare to the recorded version:

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